Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Two dick-tators

Two dick-tators

The problem with christianity is that it traps people in a perpetual state of childish helplessness... shifting all responsibility to god, declaring that whatever happens is 'god’s will,' and branding any attempt at independent thought or self-determination as sinful hubris. The only acceptable posture becomes one of submission: get in line, kneel humbly before the church, the bible, the deity - and relinquish your own agency, capability, and responsibility.

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Jimmy Kimmel Has A Field Day With Trump's Latest Quack Doctor

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/jimmy-kimmel-has-field-day-trumps-latest?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=101292

Rappel : si vous trouvez des magazines d'extrême droite dans une salle d'attente ou équivalent, vous les prenez avec vous. Ils vont pas partir tout seuls au recyclage.

“Only the people of Ukraine can decide on our territory,” – Zelensky delivers a firm rebuke to Trump’s envoy.

A clear message to Witkoff, who’s been openly floating a “settlement on five regions” in Ukraine.

“Harvard's challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power”

https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-administration-federal-cuts-037c3f5b259a7577358c5979e701c7c7

BREAKING: DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed.

The lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case.

New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-dismisses-key-racial-discrimination-case

An organization representing 72,000 academic professionals at 125 Canadian universities and colleges advises its members to avoid non-essential travel to the United States. https://www.caut.ca/latest/2025/04/caut-advises-academics-against-non-essential-travel-us

Whether it’s to Guantanamo or El Salvador, #republicans sure do love to ship off people who haven’t faced due process in order to determine their legal statuses.

In violation of these politicians’ oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution, of course.

In maybe the Most Canadian story ever, two political parties (the NDP and Bloc Québécois) are asking that tomorrow's French language election debate be postponed because it conflicts with a Montreal Canadiens game.

So, Nayib Bukele is an ancestral Palestinain refugee who is now a Christian Zionist who sides with Israel and is willing to murder Palestianian activists in his private concentration camp?

This timeline is WEIRD. Someone's fucking with quantum mechanics, aren't they. Optimizing for themselves and forcing the rest of us to live in Bizzaro-world.

https://nacla.org/christian-zionism-bukeles-el-salvador

Interpreting the term “facilitate” in that manner, #KilmarAbregoGarcia's attorneys argued, would render "null" #SCOTUS’ order that the government facilitate his release.

“To give any meaning to the Supreme Court’s order, the Government should at least be required to request the release of Abrego Garcia. To date, the Government has not done so.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.75.0.pdf

#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers

Harvard's lawyers wrote a letter to the Trump gang that ends like this:

It is unfortunate, then, that your letter disregards Harvard’s efforts and instead presents demands that, in contravention of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms long recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle.

Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration.

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Response-2025-04-14.pdf

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MAGA as pro-#dementia: "Gone are ~$10 million in remaining money for a project that inc. 28 clinical & research sites across the country & 1700 participants w/mild cognitive impairments. 'We don’t have the ability to predict who’s going to get worse b/c we won’t be able to see them,' said DeCarli, who’s also co-director of the #Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at #UCDavis. His project also had the goal of placing these participants in treatment & prevention trials.

https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/04/health-research/

Meanwhile fed govt is ignoring actual anti-Semitism like the firebombing of Josh Shapiro’s house on Passover.

So now Trump says, publicly in front of God and everybody, that US citizens will be arrested and deported to remote prisons.

First they came for the immigrants...
...and I was mad as hell.

Because I read the damn poem!
https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/14/home-growns-are-next/